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Last week, Dick Armey, the former speaker of the U.S. House, began an assault on fellow Republican Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman who ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008 on the single issue of illegal immigration. Armey, a Tea Partier and FreedomWorks chairman, told...

Javier Gasbar, who owns Silverthorne cleaning company Perfect Service, is expanding. But there's a problem. "It's only immigrants who apply for these jobs," he tells KUNC radio, saying the government should be making it easier, not harder, for him to hire them. The issue of immigration was...

Community members and immigration advocates gathered Saturday night at Al Frente de Lucha in Greeley for a candle-light vigil to remind area residents that the impacts of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the Swift meatpacking plant (now JBS) are still resounding throughout their...

The ski town of Breckenridge has voted by a margin of almost three to one to legalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. The ordinance also removes criminal penalties for the possession of bongs, pipes, and other drug paraphernalia, notes 7News. "This vote demonstrates that...

Michael Bennet, who was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter as U.S. senator earlier this year, had a phenomenally successful night rubbing elbows with all the right people a few months back. In his case, the right people included powerful Democrats, like White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, at...

It turns out that former Governor Bill Owens, a conservative Republican, isn't the only one with a soft spot for kids who work hard in school but have trouble getting into college because their parents emigrated illegally. Now, state Representative Joe Miklosi, a Denver Democrat, wants to offer...

Demonstrators rallied on the steps of the Aurora Municipal Center yesterday to ask federal lawmakers to pass immigration reforms that aim to end to immigration raids, writes the Aurora Sentinel, noting that current laws are splitting up families with undocumented workers. "There are far too many...

Next month, voters in the Denver area will be asked whether drivers caught without a valid driver's license should automatically have their vehicles impounded. The idea might be to your liking if you're the kind of person who wants to see the government crack down harshly on foreigners who just...